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Postwar American literature - Coggle Diagram
Postwar American literature
The Beat Generation
Allen Ginsberg
Howl 1956
Kaddish 1959
position themselves in opposition to Modernism and the literature of the 1940s-1950s
Thomas Stearns Eliot
One of the leading figures of the 20th century literature
American Drama in this period
Eugene O'Neill
Long day's journey into night 1956
The hairy ape 1922
Mourning becomes Electra
Formalism
Tenesse Williams
The glass Menagerie 1944
A street car named desire 1947
Cat on a hot tin roof 1955
The night of the Iguana 1961
Arthur Miller (Marxist, propaganda plays)
Death of a salesman 1949
The crucible 1953
Edward Albee
absurdist playwright
The zoo story 1959
Who's afraid of the Virginia wolf? 1962
A delicate balance 1966
Postmodern literature
emergence of formally tabooed themes
different understanding of identity
Some wrote about the war
John Hersey: A bell for Adano (novel)
Irwin Shaw: The young lions.
James Jones: From here to eternity
Marginalized groups
Feminism
marginalized groups: homosexuals, lesbians etc.
Ethnic identity
African-American authors
Richard Wright: Black Boy (1945)
Ismael Reed
Native American authors
Linda Hogan
Leslie Marmon Silko
Asian-American authors
Maxin Hong Kingston
Cyberpunk novel
William Gibson